Playwright Kate Rich was recently announced as one of two Homer artists to receive the 2025 Connie Boochever Artist Fellowship award from the Alaska Arts and Culture Foundation and the Alaska State Council on the Arts. According to a Dec. 10 press release, the fellowship was established to further a message that Boochever — a […]
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3 Homer artists awarded Rasmuson Foundation grants
Three Homer artists were among 50 across Alaska named as 2025 Individual Artist Awardees. Brianna Allen, Carla Klinker and Karyn Murphy will each receive a $10,000 project grant to support short-term projects that contribute to their artistic development and practice. According to a Dec. 4 press release from the Rasmuson Foundation, the Individual Artist Awards […]
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‘Nutcracker’ returns next weekend to Mariner stage
It’s that time of year again — Homer’s 37th annual “Nutcracker” production will grace the Mariner Theatre stage at Homer High School starting Saturday, Dec. 6. Directed by Sally Oberstein and featuring choreography by Rhoslyn Anderson, this holiday favorite is a longtime theatrical tradition on the Mariner stage and involves dozens of community members of […]
Read MoreKenai students prepare to open ‘A Midsummer Night’s Dream’
Kenai Central High School students have been hard at work preparing for the opening night of “A Midsummer Night’s Dream” on Friday, Nov. 14. Travis Lawson, KCHS science teacher and director of the drama department, said approximately 20 students have been rehearsing multiple times per week since September. The play, written by Shakespeare at the […]
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Johnny B to perform ‘Rhythm of the North’ this weekend
This weekend, John Bushell (known locally by his performance name “Johnny B”) will host his final showing for the season of his original music and storytelling act “Rhythm of the North” at Pier One Theatre on the Spit. Bushell, a classically trained musician who attended the Berklee College of Music in the late 1970s, describes […]
Read MoreFace-to-face with Es Devlin
Es Devlin, the winner of the 2025 Eugene McDermott Award in the Arts at MIT, creates settings for people to gather — whether it’s a few people in a room or crowds swelling a massive stadium — arenas in which to dissolve one’s individual sense of self into the greater collective. She herself contains multitudes; […]
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How Jon Bernthal Became Hollywood’s Most Dependable Bruiser
When Jon Bernthal was cast as a petty drug dealer in “The Wolf of Wall Street,” Martin Scorsese’s 2013 white-collar crime epic, the actor wasn’t even supposed to have many lines. But Bernthal went into that film intending to take his shot. So he came in for a wordless B-roll scene in which the script […]
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Candid Photos from the Tony Awards Red Carpet
George Clooney, Nicole Scherzinger, Audra McDonald, Sarah Snook, Daniel Dae Kim and Cole Escola are some of the big names up for top acting prizes at Sunday night’s Tony Awards. Before the ceremony, as Broadway stars arrived at New York’s Radio City Music Hall, the photographer Sinna Nasseri captured their candid moments.
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Highlights from MIT’s first-ever Artfinity festival
When people think of MIT, they may first think of code, circuits, and cutting-edge science. But the school has a rich history of interweaving art, science, and technology in unexpected and innovative ways — and that’s never been more clear than with the Institute’s latest festival, Artfinity: A Celebration of Creativity and Community at MIT. After […]
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‘Well worth remembering’
Community members gathered Friday at Pier One Theatre on the Spit to celebrate the life and memory of Mary Epperson. Epperson is remembered by those who knew her as a beloved local music teacher and passionate advocate for education and the arts. In 2011, the City of Homer proclaimed June 6 — her birthday — […]
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