UPDATE: Anchorage Mayor Ethan Berkowitz has resigned. He issued a statement citing “unacceptable personal conduct” as the reason. The nature of that conduct remains undefined. While Duane Ose, the 78-year-old […]
Hormonal dangers
Back to the wild
As winter closes fast on Central Alaska, the family of short-lived, reality- TV star Duane Ose fears he has gone off to die in the homestead cabin that is no longer […]
Stranger than fiction
Only in Alaska can reality prove stranger than reality TV, and when the two converge, the outcome is near unbelievable. Consider the case of 78-year-old Duane Ose who off and on […]
Real(ity) tales
If a reality TV star’s latest version of events is to be believed, the media tale of former President Barak Obama eating a bear-killed salmon while on his 2015 global-warming tour of […]
Story
With U.S. Reality Star in Chief Donald J. Trump almost daily underlining the devaluation of honesty in these unUnited States, PBS’s Frontline is crediting, or blaming, former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin for […]
Gone guy
Just as the short Alaska summer was beginning its slide into fall in the latter half of August 2018, 41-year-old Russian immigrant Vladimir Kostenko slipped into a backpack and hiked off into […]
Credit due
As a role model, President Donald Trump might now rank the most successful man ever to occupy the White House. More and more Americans become like him every day, and if one […]
Misery
BROAD PASS – The precipitation was falling as slush on Friday, April 27, and it was hard not to think of Chris McCandless, Alaska’s most famous nobody, as the SUV sped south […]
Explainin’ the rainin’
California afire and Alaska awash because of The Triple R?
Reality TV claims a life
The creative director at RideApart.com, a major website for motorcycle adventure, has died in a freak, off-trail, motorsport accident in the Front Range Chugach Mountains above Anchorage. Forty-three-year-old Jim Downs from North […]
