Before and After: Anchorage’s oldest coffee shop gets a makeover (sponsored)
Watch how well-loved old school Cafe del Mundo became the gorgeous, new school Black Cup.
The business of mushing, powered by sled dogs and Facebook (For The Guardian)
The sport is an old-fashioned test of endurance, but increasingly, getting by as a musher is linked to savvy in the digital world.
How not to write about food (for KTUU)
Wherein Rebecca Palsha makes me say my least favorite food words.
City notebook: A postcard from Spenard
Here’s a digital postcard my students made on a sunny day in Spenard.
Old school “forgotten” chicken and rice for when dinner = comfort
Life might be a stormy sea, but dinner is an island. Bring this to your friends.
The easiest butternut squash soup (guest post by Natasha)
This is the tastiest, easiest soup ever. (Includes an Alaska Knit Nat life hack for cleaning your blender.)
Is toxic algae killing animals across Alaska? (For Al Jazeera America)
The massive seabird die-off is part of a larger story about the health of Alaska’s oceans as sea temperatures rise. For more than a year, scientists have been cataloging smaller, unexplained episodes of animals dying on beaches — including other birds, sea otters, sea lions, several species of whales, starfish and fish.
