From February 27 to March 2nd, the Interior Independent Theatre, hosted by The Basement, put on the renowned play For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide / When a Rainbow Is Enuf. The play is a Black theatre piece written by Ntozake Shange, an African American playwright and poet, in 1975. Consisting of twenty to twenty-two poems, For Colored Girls… consists of poetic monologues, choreography with music, and symbolic moments. This is known as a choreopoem. This play became a book by Shange and then a movie re-written, produced, and directed by Tyler Perry in 2010. 

The Alaska Historical Society’s letter to the Board of Regents in response to their diversity action.

How do we wrangle with loss or the breaking apart of something? Dawson Gentleman asks this question over and over in his debut album, Going Nowhere.

The University of Alaska Board of Regents passed a motion on February 21, 2025, to gut the University of Alaska’s commitment to diversity, equity, and inclusion. Regent Albiona Selimi was the only member of the Board of Regents to show humanity, compassion, and a moral compass by voting no.

With his third album, Just Like You Wanted It, released on February 14, 2025, Casey Smith Project is hitting his stride. The album results from more than a year’s worth of demos, jam sessions, and meticulous attention to the track masters (for a lengthy sit-down with Casey Smith about the album and his tour in Iceland last year, read my two-part interview).

TikTok isn’t the real world. Social media isn’t real. If you find yourself scrolling and thinking everyone else has it together, remember most of what you see is staged. Perfectly edited photos. Fake trips. "Curated" lifestyles.

Daft Punk stopped making music in February of 2021, approximately twenty-eight years after their landmark debut album, Homework (1997). However, their sophomore effort, Discovery (2001), sent them straight into the stratosphere. Appropriately so for a now iconic release, the visual album of Discovery titled Interstella5555: The 5story of the 5ecret 5tar 5ystem (2003) was released in a select number of theaters nationwide for one night only.

Casey Smith Project sits down with the editor-in-chief of The Sun Star to discuss the new album and playing at the Iceland Airwaves festival overseas—Part 2 of a two-part interview.

Casey Smith Project sits down with the editor-in-chief of The Sun Star to discuss the new album and playing at the Iceland Airwaves festival overseas—Part 1 of a two-part interview.

Before they are set to open for DJ Dancing FaraZ at SpringFest, I sat down with the Brothers Ramirez to ask a few questions about their music, their origins, and their hopes for the future as DJs.

Before his March 29th show at The Pub, I sat down with Casey Smith of The Casey Smith Project to ask a few questions about his music, his origins, and his hopes for the future as an artist and musician.

It’s been a minute since The Pub has had rap on its stage. Texas-based J. Saenz (pronounced “signs”) changed all that Saturday, March 9, thanks to Casey Scroggins.

Before their February 24th show at The Pub, I sat down with Carnelian Woman to ask a few questions about their music, their origins, and their hopes for the future as musical collaborators.

Carnelian Woman returns to The Pub for another gorgeous and understated live show.

Many critics claimed cinema was dead. Between the pandemic and the rise of streaming platforms, movie theaters have had several rough years. According to CNN, in 2022, thirty percent fewer people went to the movies than in 2019. Several movie theater companies, including AMC, flirted with bankruptcy. Yet in 2023, the movies came roaring back.

I wasn’t going to watch the new Mean Girls movie at first. I knew it was a remake of the recent Broadway musical, which wasn’t entirely engrossing. I’d heard about Angourie Rice’s flat singing and awkward camera angles. Honestly, I just don’t watch a lot of movies in theaters in general. But then I saw this TikTok by Glenn DeVar and knew I had to check it out myself.

Are we separate from nature? Is it possible to cleanly define an “us” versus a “not-us”? Is it even productive to think of ourselves as somehow separate from (or even above) our environment?

As an instructor in the Hub, I, along with my fellow instructors, seek to create an atmosphere where all students are comfortable. One instructor reiterated this message in Discord following the insensitive comments made by several students.

On December 29, 2023, the Republic of South Africa submitted its application to the International Court of Justice (ICJ) concerning genocidal actions taken and being taken by the Israeli government and military, therein violating the 1948 Genocide Convention, of which both nations are beheld to uphold. On January 26, 2024, the ICJ issued its ruling on the case.

Today, the younger generation’s first language is English, and they cannot speak the Yugtun Language, but they will understand if we speak to them. My nephew is one of the people whose first language is English, and my family and I speak to him in Yugtun a lot and slowly he is making progress in learning to speak the language.