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Columns & Sections

Book Reviews & Library News
Design, Shirts, & Shelves at the Library
by D. Helfferich

Seems Like Old Times
Putin's Russia: Life in a Failing Democracy
by Anna Politkovskaya, translation by Arch Tait
Kremlin Rising: Vladimir Putin's Russia and the End of Revolution
by Peter Baker and Susan Glasser
book reviews
by
David A. James

Open a Narrowing Mind
Outfoxing Fear: folktales from around the world
by Kathleen Ragan
book review
by
Carla Helfferich

Calendar of Events

Cartoons
"Bon Débarras"
by Dan Darrow

"smoke a pack"
by Jamie Smith

"North Pole stickup"
by Jolene Schafer-Howell

"Done Done Done Done"
by Jeanne Armstrong

Editorial
Save a Bookstore this Christmas!

Letters to the Editor
Jeff Rogers
Roger Freed

Movie Reviews
Video Dreamland
Nacho Libre
The Break-up
A Prairie Home Companion
Thank You for Smoking
Thou Shalt Laugh
The American Haunting
reviews by Thela Clayton

poetry
"Between the Popes, 2005"
by Marjorie Kowalski Cole

Postal News
public announcements
Springs Show in Dead of Winter
BiPolar Birthday: Call for Artists
Viva Corvidae
AARP Looking for Volunteers
GVEA Members Vote No on G&T
Events from Call to Action and NAEC
Picnic Auditions

Infant Society
The Stork Report: The Next Winter Batch
Alizarin Joy Colitz
Deirdre Mae McKelvey
Sawyer Brown
baby girl(?) Turner

by D. Helfferich

Ray's View from the Lump

Victuals & Drink
The Deft Palate
Putting on the Ritz at Lavelle's Bistro
by Mary Haley

Winter Wings
Boreal Chickadee
courtesy the Alaska Bird Observatory

FEATURES

Bioenergy in Alaska
by Brian Yanity

Bioenergy is known for many forms of biologically produced energy sources: biogas, ethanol, biodiesel, and solid biomass. In Alaska, "biomass energy" usually means "burning wood" and "biodiesel" could be fish oil.

Game vs. Women
a comparative calendar review by D. Helfferich

Two calendars featuring semi-nude women: one stacks up to this feminist's expectations (and the other one doesn't): Hot stuff and cold fish, Alaskan babes and dead animals.

The Long View: Big Domes
by Ross Coen

Techno-fixes may not save the day for society's ills, but they can sure be grand!

The Missionary Position: On Gay Marriage
opinion by Neal Matson

The gay marriage issue was one of the gnats of the election, per Matthew 23:23-24.

A Newly Amended Resumé
by Nancy Burnham

Joe Geiss and his show Inward Spiral at the Annex.

You Can Bet Your Boots
by Thomas R. Sorenson

It was just a friendly little poker game, but guess who lost his shirt?

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