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Columns & Sections

Alaska Scapegoat Ranch
Year's End Accounting: 2005
The Benefits of a Scapegoat Ranch
by Wilkins Micawber, Prop.

Book Review
Bear Bait
The Grizzly Maze: Timothy Treadwell's Fatal Obsession with Alaskan Bears
by Nick Jans
book review
by
David A. James

Love Your Library Soup & Stow
public announcement

Lallapalooza Too!
public announcement

Calendar of Events

Cartoon
2005 in review
by Mikhaela B. Reid

Editorial
Trash and Day-Old Bread

Firebreak
column by Sarah Wolfe

A Call for Volunteers
public announcement

Poetry
"Snack"
by Ray Hadley

The Postal News
Local Et Cetera No. 4
public announcement

Cold Mountain Zen
public announcement

Celebrate Seven!
public announcement

Design Contest!
public announcement

Theatre!
public announcement

AARP on Medicare's New Drug Plan
public announcement

Call to Action Alaska
public announcement

Alaska 20/20
public announcement

Wanted: Plays for 8 x 10 Festival
public announcement

Victuals & Drink
Greener Groceries

Natural Choice Market dot com
by LJ Evans

Video Dreamland
Mr. & Mrs. Smith
The Island
The Baxter
The 40-Year-Old Virgin
March of the Penguins
The Exorcism of Emily Rose
movie reviews by Thela Clayton

Web Feet
www.archive.org/web/web.php
www.meebo.co
www.craigslist.com
www.ucsusa.org
www.nasa.gov
www.paulenglish.com
reviews by C.B. and Gromit

Seventh Anniversary Issue!
FEATURES

At Last, a Refuge
by Jeffrey A. Rogers

The FM side of my radio dial doesn't work anymore, so I am listening to AM sports—what a relief.

Beyond the Lens of Irony
by K.W.M. Farmen

Musings on the Age of Irony, its death, and the importance of the photograph.

Bon Voyage and Hello
by D. Helfferich

The Golden Eagle has changed hands.

Checks and Balances on Wal-Mart
by CR Stice

Two Fairbanks nonprofits have been working on the big-box store issue: the Fairbanks Grassroots Network and Alaska Checks and Balances.

A Long Look Back at the Legislature
by June Allen

Members of the Alaska Legislature think they've got an awkward time getting to the capitol now, but you should have seen how they got there back in 1913!

New Year's Bowl '06: On Camera
by Kate "Bonecrusher" Billington

One heck of a game, with close to twenty players, some of whom hadn't been seen on the field in a month of Sundays! (Maybe three m onths' worth...)

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