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Columns & Sections

Book Reviews
& Library News
Librarypalooza III: April Fool's!
public announcement

Crazed Tabloid Makes News!
Bat Boy Lives! The Weekly World News Guide to Politics, Culture, Alien Abductions, and the Mutant Freaks that Shape Our World
by David Perel and the editors of the Weekly World News

Rabid Nun Infects Entire Convent and Other Sensational Stories from a Tabloid Writer
by Tom D'Antoni

book reviews

by David A. James

Calendar of Events

Cartoons
cartoon caption contest
by Dan Darrow

"A same-sex benefit"
by Eric Troyer

"Mickey W"
by Jamie Smith

Editorial
Editorial Digest

Letters to the Editor
Edmund Clausen
Jeff Rogers
Dave Lacey

Movie Reviews
Video Dreamland
Grizzly Man
An Inconvenient Truth
The Covenant
Seducing Dr. Lewis
Jesus Camp
The Celestine Prophecy
Idiocracy
movie reviews
by Thela Clayton

poetry
"Them Pikes Ate Up All Them Muskrats"
a prose poem by Paul H. Beals

The Postal News
public announcements
Tim Easton at the UAF Pub
March Reading Series: Michael Travis
Reinterpretaion: An Art Show
UAF Campus Peace Walk
Candlelight Vigil

Ray's View from the Lump

Victuals & Drink
Sala & Sopas
by Maggie Billington

The Deft Palate
Gulliver's Second Story Café
by Mary Haley

Winter Wings
Boreal Owl
courtesy the Alaska Bird Observatory

FEATURES

Eureka Narcosis, or, Rapture of the Trash
by Jeffrey A. Rogers

Songs celebrating a reversible alteration in consiousness producing a state similar to alcohol intoxication in dumpster divers in possession of reusable material goods.

How I See It
an occasional column by Jean Lester

Sometimes, hurrying to the airport means going slowly--but then you've got to watch for the Troopers.

The Long View: Gubernatorial Operations
by Ross Coen

The state's very first gubernatorial inauguration was like no other: Egan's gall bladder had a thing or two to do with the running of the new state.

The Missionary Position On Project Steve
opinion by Neal Matson

This tongue-in-cheek response to creationists' ongoing attempts to deny the truth of evolution lists 720 Steves, scientists who think the theory is sound. That represents a good 72,000 actual scientists.

The Shopping Cart Graveyard
by Dru Heskin

Suicidal shopping carts have been hurling themselves into the pit near the College Road Fred Meyers. Can this tragedy be averted?

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