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Book Reviews & Library News
True Blue
The Making of Kind of Blue: Miles Davis and his Materpiece
by Eric Nisenson
Clawing at the Limits of Cool: Miles Davis, John Coltrane, and the Greatest Jazz Colaboration Ever
by Farah Jasmine Griffin and Salim Washington
Kind of Blue: Legacy Edition
by Miles Davis
Reviews by
David A. James

Cartoons
"2nd Place"
by Dan Darrow

"Primate Change"
by Keith Knightl

"Matthew 25:40"
by Jamie Smith

Editorial
Menstruating Murderesses & Terrorist Taxi Drivers

letter to the editor
Health Care
David A. James

Movie Reviews
Movies from the Mile-High City
Couples Retreat
Monsters vs. Aliens
Paul Blart: Mall Cop
The Ugly Truth
New in Town
Four Christmases
reviews by Keely Buchanan

poetry
"Kindle"
by Gregory K. Shipman

The Postal News
Announcements

Wohlford Honored
by Leah Hill

Obituary
Poetry & Pies: Marjorie Kowalski Cole, 1953-2009
by Deirdre Helfferich

"Our Loss"
Aspiring Ester Poet

Victuals & Drink
Chef of the Jungle
Horror in Costa Rica: The Day Before the Night
by David Mahler

FEATURES

America and the Whale: Strengthened Economy Through Smaller Community
by Methnie Ongtooguk

Native communities have thrived on a traditional system of sharing which generated a sense of belonging, purpose and responibility in everyone. These holistic economies provide an example for Alaska to contribute positively to the overall economy of the United States.

Arctic Spring
by Barry Zellen

Climate change pessimists have concluded that the Earth is heading into a profound climate crisis. An optimistic few are looking at the opportunities that a warming Arctic may provide.

The Cockroach's Christmas
by Walter Benesch

A Christmas tale of reincarnation.

Deputies and Dynamite: Attempts at unlocking Alaska's treasures circa 1907
by T. Hall, Part 1 of 2

As rumors of Alaska's vast wealth spread, transportation was always spoken of as the key to unlock the treasure box--but Alaskans had to wrest their railroads from the clutches of the Syndicate.

A Dirty Job
Outpost Agriculture, by Phil Loring: Seven Agricultural Myths No. 2

Farming should not smell bad.

The Missionary Position on Denial
by Neal Matson

Nowadays there is a new form of denial and deniers—a politicized denial of truth and facts by those who refuse to accept what they don't want to believe.

Monumental Alaska
The Long View by Ross Coen

There are monuments to individuals, like Charles Bunnell, and there are monuments to an open history in which everyone had a role.

My Rogue Big Toe, Part 2
Dose of Reality, by Neil Davis

I continue with my reporting on my month-long undercover investigation of Alaska medical facilities.

Reluctant Health Care Dragons
A Conspiracy of Ravens by Rich Seifert

By now you have heard all the cacophony you ever want to regaurding the health care debochal going on in this land of scouling and whining once known as the U S of A.

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