Listen to this: the blog edition
By Daniella Cortez In this week’s print issue we ran an article reviewing five local acts that put out albums in 2012. They were chosen on completely personally subjective grounds for being stand out in…
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Playlist: This is it 2012
You knew it was coming. There was no way we were going to escape 2012 without a “best of” round up. After plugging in a few of my personal favorites, asking around what some of…
Night Out: The Hoons, Turquoise Boy and Kill Tango
By Joel Adams So Saturday night I had several choices on where to go and what to do. It was the day after the apocalypse, which is something that doesn’t happen all that often, and there was…
Night Out: Post Apocalyptic Dance Party
By Daniella Cortez Last Saturday night we partied in the name of survival. The world did not collapse in on itself due to the Mayan calendar ending. (Surprise!) We all woke up Saturday morning in…
Song of the winter
By Scott Christiansen I generally don’t admit this, but I miss the Top 40 radio of the ‘70s, and the weird togetherness listeners felt if a song topped the charts, and hung for a few…
Announcing the winners of the 2012 Black and White Photo Contest!
The Anchorage Press is thrilled to announce the winners of this year’s Black and White photo contest. We received almost 200 submissions, chronicling everything from the grand mountain-scapes of McKinley to little flowers, from small…
The only Christmas song. Ever.
I was going to put together a play list for you guys full of Christmas songs for people who don’t like Christmas songs. But here’s how much I hate Christmas music, I could only think…
Second Opinion: The Tyranny of Pants
Our question this week comes from Danny Ashton Earll: What happened to the days where people tried to be presentable in public? Why are 30-year-old women walking around town in PJ pants and oversized hoodies?…
2012 Cell Phone Photo Contest
Voting is now open for the 2012 Cell Phone Photo Contest. It’s as simple as hitting “like” on the photo(s) you want to vote for. Winners will be chosen based on the number of likes…
Snowpocolypse 2012: A Hero Emerges
Wednesdays are hectic in the Press offices. It’s the day we go to print and it’s probably the one day of the week that it is absolutely pertinent that the editorial staff get to work…