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Some Yukon Quest Teams Surprised To Find Themselves Among Top-10
There are three Yukon Quest teams currently running among the top-10 that did not plan on racing with the front-runners when they left Whitehorse.
In fact, none of them were able to complete the race last year, so they returned simply to finish what they started.
When Mike Ellis arrived in Dawson City, he had no idea what his place was.
"Art the beginning of the race I said I thought I'd be lucky to be even in the top-15 with the field and the names that this race had," he said.
Ellis has started the Quest six times, but he has only finished three.
"This is the first Quest I've ever run where I didn't' have a schedule written down in my book, where I didn't have definitive plan of what I was going to do," Ellis said. "I really just wanted to put my blinders on and just focus on my dog team and I think that's served me very well so far."
French Canadian Normand Casavant had a similar attitude headed into the race.
"I just want to have a happy run and I let my dogs go and if I'm having a nice race and a competitive one, that's life that's going to give it to me and that's maybe what's happened right now," Casavant said.
Last year, a case of shingles cut Casavant's race short. He says the experience changed his perspective, but there are some things that never change.
Casavant is known as the singing musher, and that's what he did when he realized he was running right on the heels of Cody Strathe.
"As we climbed up King Solomon's Dome, the snow got deeper and deeper and my leaders got really excited to break trail and were just flying," he said.
Strathe also came to finish what he started last year. In 2014, he had to scratch from the race with just over 100 miles to go. He says the early part of the race was tough, but he was encouraged when what started as a slow slog just outside Dawson City turned into a high point for his team.
"We got up on top and they were busting into drifts and bouncing through and we'd stop and the whole team's tails would be wagging," Strathe said.
The top-10 teams are likely to cross the Canada-Alaska border today. They've come just over halfway, but there's still 400 miles of rough trail ahead before they reach the finish in Fairbanks.
From Frozen To Cover Girl, Drag Queen Style Hinges On Hair
James Hoagland is in the business of wigs. Not just your ordinary costume and fashion wigs – his are specifically for drag queens. He spends hours styling hair and stitching it into wig caps. Last year, he sold 300 mostly to clients in the Lower 48 and internationally.
Hoagland does it all from a little studio in Juneau.
"I've got Buxom and Cover Girl," Hoagland said. "I've got the Vanilla Raspberry Swirl."
This is a small sample of the wigs James Hoagland offers.
"The best wig name is Sandy Pecan Avalanche, which is exactly what you'd imagine it to look like," Hoagland said.
Despite such enticing names, most of Hoagland's business is custom.
On this day he's re-creating Elsa's hair from the Disney movie "Frozen." Usually, for character wigs, Hoagland has a picture to work off of, but he doesn't need one in this case. He's already made eight other Elsa wigs.
"One thing with drag queens is they're very tied to pop culture and their shows are better when they are doing the latest song or the latest character from the hit movie," he said.
Hoagland starts off with a manufactured blond wig about three feet long. It cost him about $30 and when he's done styling it, he'll sell it for $120.
Of everything it takes to be a drag queen – the makeup, shoes, costume, music…
"The wig will make or break you. It really will," he said, laughing.
People watching drag queens are drawn to the face. The next focal point, Hoagland says, is the hair.
"If your wig looks horrible, people really won't be able to focus on anything else, they'll be staring at your ugly wig," he said.
The reason that Hoagland knows so much about the drag queen business is because he is a drag queen. He's not performing now but he spent 8 years touring the county singing in night clubs, casinos and theaters. He found stable work as a Liza Minelli impersonator. His drag name is Gigi Monroe, which is also the name of his wig business.
Hoagland says the very nature of being a drag queen is a paradox.
"You're in a wig, you're in pounds of makeup and heavy lashes and shoes and costumes that probably aren't breathable fabrics," Hoagland said. "All of those things make it incredibly uncomfortable and part of your job is to look like you are the most comfortable and the most at ease and you feel beautiful and glamorous when you might feel like a monster."
Hoagland started his wig business the summer of 2013 on a cruise ship. He was a costume designer for Norwegian Cruise Lines on the Alaska route. He was interested in earning extra money and experimented with making a wig, something he'd gotten adept at as a queen. After he made one, he put it online.
"It sold in, like, three minutes," Hoagland said.
So he kept at it, trying different styles and putting all the wigs on Facebook.
"I had a network of 5,000 drag queen friends from all over the world," Hoagland said.
Because of cruise ship employee rules, like not taking things off the ship, Hoagland kept his wig business under the radar; he didn't want people to think he was stealing. He received packages of hair in Seattle and mailed wigs out in Skagway.
"I would sneak them off the ship in these bags and I would have my friends who were dancers on the ship carry some of them and it was just hilarious and it was so much fun," he said.
Hoagland ended up making 50 wigs. As he was doing that on the ship, off the ship, he was falling in love. He met his partner while in port in Juneau and had a date every time he returned. They would meet up for dinner, have coffee.
"We went on hikes, we went to the ice caves, just kind of got to know each other and he was really what I was looking for in a lot of ways," he said.
Hoagland says his wig business allowed him to take some risks – on a relationship and on Juneau. So far, they're both working out.
The secret to good drag queen hair is height, and more height. Hoagland says wigs for men just have to be bigger. Makeup and body curves should also be emphasized.
"Whereas you down play things like shoulders and hands and feet or height, things that make people look more masculine," Hoagland said.
Making big hair takes teasing and lots of hairspray – Extra Super Hold Aqua Net.
"This is like my light hairspray. The real stuff is the freezing spray. That stuff is like cement in an aerosol format," he said.
The teasing creates a nest of knots that you can't see. Hoagland says it's hidden under the pretty part, which in the character Elsa's case is a long loose braid that falls down around her shoulder.
"It's one of those styles that's, like, 'Oh, it's supposed to look messy,' but it can't be messy. It has to look perfect," he said.
For Hoagland, Juneau is perfect. He gets a lot of support from fellow small business owners who are also artists. And the post office treats his packages with extra care.
"In some ways, Juneau is the last place on earth you would ever expect a drag queen to be making wigs, but it's also kind of the perfect place," he said.
Hoagland doesn't know how long he'll be making wigs. But he does know, in one way or another, he'll always be in the business of drag.
300 Villages: Nondalton
This week we're heading to Nondalton, an Athabascan village on the edge of Lake Clark National Park: William Evanoff is president of the Nondalton Tribal Council.
Alaska News Nightly: February 13, 2015
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Murkowski Turns Sec. Kerry's Gaze North
Liz Ruskin, APRN – Washington DC
Sec. of State John Kerry's agenda these days is dominated by the world's hot spots: Iran, Syria, Ukraine, Yemen. U.S. Sen. Lisa Murkowski met with him this week to move his focus to a cold spot: the Arctic.
Corps. of Engineers Recommend Expanding Nome's Deep-Water Arctic Port
Matthew Smith, KNOM – Nome
The U.S Army Corps of Engineers is set to unveil its first steps toward expanding deep-water Arctic ports, and Corps officials say the main focus will be expanding the existing Port of Nome.
Haines Police Department Faces Serious Shortfall In State Budget
Emily Files, KHNS – Haines
The Haines Borough Police Department and dispatch services could face a dramatic funding loss under Gov. Bill Walker's proposed budget. It would eliminate funding the state Department of Corrections, or DOC, gives each year to law enforcement in 15 small communities. That funding is meant to help towns run local jails, but in Haines, it supports more than that.
Bill Clarifies Alaska Attorney General's Power To Settle Oil, Gas Litigation
Alexandra Gutierrez, APRN – Juneau
Gov. Bill Walker has introduced legislation clarifying the powers of the attorney general when settling litigation related to Alaska's oil and gas resources.
AVTEC Nursing Programs Cut
Ellen Lockyer, KSKA – Anchorage
AVTEC, the state's vocational and technical school with campuses in Seward and Anchorage, will be losing programs due to the budget cuts.
Cuts Could Cost Fairbanks Schools Over 60 Jobs
Tim Ellis, KUAC – Fairbanks
The Fairbanks North Star Borough Schools superintendent says the district is facing a budget shortfall of up to $11 million in the coming school year. Karen Gaborik says that will require the district to eliminate more than 60 jobs.
Some Yukon Quest Teams Surprised To Find Themselves Among Top-10
Emily Schwing, KUAC – Fairbanks
Brent Sass is still leading the Yukon Quest by a wide margin. His closest competitor is Allen Moore, who is almost 8 hours behind.
From Frozen To Cover Girl, Drag Queen Style Hinges On Hair
Lisa Phu, KTOO – Juneau
James Hoagland is in the business of wigs. Not just your ordinary costume and fashion wigs – his are specifically for drag queens. He spends hours styling hair and stitching it into wig caps. Last year, he sold 300 mostly to clients in the Lower 48 and internationally. Hoagland does it all from a little studio in Juneau.
300 Villages: Nondalton
This week we're heading to Nondalton, an Athabascan village on the edge of Lake Clark National Park. William Evanoff is president of the Nondalton Tribal Council.
Murkowski Turns Sec. Kerry's Gaze North
Sec. of State John Kerry's agenda these days is dominated by the world's hot spots: Iran, Syria, Ukraine, Yemen. U.S. Sen. Lisa Murkowski met with him this week to move his focus to a cold spot: the Arctic.
The senator says Kerry isn't entirely engaged in the far North, which Murkowski says is understandable.
"The secretary is very focused on issues as they relate to climate, so that aspect of the Arctic, I think it's fair to say, he is engaged, " she said after the meeting. "I don't think that he has the bigger Arctic picture, the other Arctic pictures."
Murkowski says she had about 40 minutes to draw his attention to the Arctic as a place where people live and need to make a living. She says she raised several issues related to commercial activity.
"One was the national security imperative for this country to make sure the trans-Alaska oil pipeline doesn't get shut down because we lose throughput," she said.
She also brought up transboundary mine concerns — the fear that Southeast Alaska salmon habitat could be damaged by large mines under development upriver in British Columbia. Murkowski says she and the rest of the Alaska delegation wrote Kerry's department about it last year.
"And quite honestly, we've gotten nothing from the state department on this," she said.
Kerry told her that, as a Massachusettsan, he was familiar with environmental problems drifting across the Canadian border. Murkowski says it seemed to register.
"He said, 'I know full well what we're talking about here and what the concerns would be from the residents of Alaska,' so he said he would make sure that there was a new eye placed to it," Murkowski recounted.
An official State Department photo of the meeting shows Robert Papp, the Department's Arctic representative, attended, as did Secretary Kerry's yellow lab, identified in the caption as "Ben the Diplomutt."
Ocean Acidification And How It Affects Alaska's Fisheries
Shellfish are particularly vulnerable to ocean acidification, and colder waters are becoming more acidic than warm waters. What does this mean for Alaska and its fisheries – especially crabs and oysters? Or for the food chain that feeds other species in the ocean? The answers are beginning to come in from the scientific world, and we'll learn more about ocean acidification on the next Talk of Alaska.
HOST: Steve Heimel, Alaska Public Radio Network
- Jeremy Mathis, director, Ocean Environment Research Division, NOAA Pacific Marine Environmental Laboratory
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Brent Sass Extends Yukon Quest Lead
The first two Yukon Quest dog teams had smooth runs up and over American Summit and arrived safely in Eagle, the sixth checkpoint on the trail.
In the process, Brent Sass gained time on rival Allen Moore, but there are still 400 miles of trail ahead and teams have to climb two more major summits.
This is the first time since 2011 that the Yukon Quest trail has followed the traditional route over American Summit. That year, Sass arrived in the checkpoint to relay a story about a dramatic rescue involving four-time champion Hans Gatt.
So, it was only fitting that Brent Sass had a yarn to spin when he arrived in Eagle, just after he descended the Summit.
"I got charged by another moose…," he said.
Sass says he encountered a moose just as he came off the Forty Mile River to join the Taylor Highway.
"It literally just kept walking at us and I couldn't do anything because if I would have taken my foot off the hooks, the dog team would have run right at it, so I was sort of crippled holding the dogs back," Sass said.
The encounter is similar to one Sass had last year near Pelly Crossing Sass. He says this year, the moose kicked at his team.
"I was like 'Oh God! My race is going to be over," he said. "I'm going to have dogs hurt and everything, but they dodged it once again and I got a good look at the eye of a moose the second year in a row."
Perhaps worse than a run-in with an angry moose is Sass's anxiety about the team behind him.
"Every second that I go down the trail, I think that Allen's going to catch me," Sass said.
Sass left Dawson City six hours ahead of Allen Moore.
"There was like a time when he hadn't even left Dawson yet and I was still looking over my shoulder, I was still looking down the trail going 'ok, when's his headlamp going to come?' It's not even mathematically possible!" he said.
Sass may not know exactly where his competition is on the trail, but there is one thing he is very sure of.
"It's totally my race to lose at this point," he said.
Teams have to take a mandatory six-hour layover in Eagle before the head back out on the trail toward Circle.
Sass left the checkpoint before Allen Moore even arrived, so he never got a look at the team ahead.
"His lead is substantial, but a lot of things can happen," he said.
Moore decided to break up the 150 miles between Dawson and Eagle into three runs. Sass only did it in two.
"We had this plan made before the race. We just thought it would better hopefully that they would have a lot of energy and the end of the race," he said.
Early on, Allen Moore says he intentional slowed his team.
"It was hard to slow them down," Moore said. "It felt like we were going downhill all the time."
He also added an extra six hours of rest before they arrived in Dawson, because of a rule change that decreased the mandatory layover there by 12 hours.
"None of us knew how the dogs were going react to it, so do I regret it?" Moore said. "You never know what the competition is going to do. You just have to make a plan and stick with it and hope it works out. Sometimes it does and sometimes it don't."
Moore's strategy is risky. He's hoping extra rest will turn into the kind of speed his team can use to catch Brent Sass. And, says Moore, there's still Eagle Summit.
"Four years ago, I carried every dog to the top," Moore said. "It took my eight hours and it was 30 mile an hour winds and blowing snow."
The second of three major summits on the Alaska side of the trail is still roughly 250 miles away.
How Could Potential Military Drawdowns Impact Alaska's Economy?
Today we're discussing possible troop drawdowns in Alaska, part of the military's broader reduction in overall size. Later this month, officials from the Defense Department and U.S. Army are visiting Anchorage and Fairbanks for listening sessions, to get a sense of what Forts Richardson and Wainwright mean to nearby communities. As well as how they fit into the broader mission of the American Armed Forces.
HOST: Zachariah Hughes
- Bill Popp, director and CEO, Anchorage Economic Development Corporation
- George Vakalis, manage, Anchorage Municipality
- Lt. Col. Allen Brown, public affairs, U.S. Army Alaska
KSKA (FM 91.1) BROADCAST: Friday, February 13 at 2:00 p.m. and Saturday, February 14 at 6:00 p.m.
Alaska Public Television BROADCAST: Friday, February 13 at 7:30 p.m. and Saturday, February 14 at 4:30 p.m.
Facing First Cuts In Years, Alaska Lawmakers Tackle The Budget
Right now, the Legislature is facing a deficit that some leaders are describing as a "$4 billion problem." With oil prices half what they were a year ago, lawmakers are having to cut agency budgets for the first time in years.
Today, the finance committees in the House and the Senate held their first hearings on the operating budget. APRN's Alexandra Gutierrez was there, and joins us to talk about the Legislature's approach.
Child sex abuse survivor wants to shatter the silence with Erin's Law
Alaska raised writer David Holthouse has told his story of being sexually abused as a child before. It's appeared in newspapers, on the radio, on stage in New York City and may even end up on the movie screen.
But when he spoke in the Alaska Capitol building today, it was to support Erin's Law. If passed, the bill would require public schools statewide to provide age-appropriate K-12 sexual abuse education.
David Holthouse has distinct childhood memories of learning how to stop, drop and roll if he ever caught on fire. He remembers McGruff the Crime Dog telling him to stay away from strangers.
"But neither McGruff nor anybody else warned me about the homecoming king," Holthouse says.
In 1978, Holthouse was 7 years old and his family had recently moved to Anchorage. They befriended another family with a daughter his age and a son in high school. The son was a star athlete, good looking and well spoken. He was nice to Holthouse.
But he changed his demeanor the night he invited Holthouse to his room to play karate.
"He took those ninja throwing stars and he pushed me up against the wall and he started throwing them like a knife thrower at the circus – thunk, thunk – so they landed right next to me saying 'Don't move' – thunk – 'Don't move,'" Holthouse says. "And then he took a samurai sword off the wall and he drew it out of the sheath and he put the blade to my neck and he said, 'If you don't do exactly what I want, I'm going to kill you.'"
Holthouse was raped, and then threatened with death and the death of his family if he ever told anyone. After a state of shock, Holthouse quickly realized what happened, but he didn't know what to call it.
"I didn't have a word for what had happened to me. To go back to McGruff – McGruff had never taught me about 'safe touch' and 'unsafe touch,' or 'good secrets' and 'bad secrets.' If I had even been able to come forward and say, 'That thing we talked about in school – that happened to me.' I didn't need any graphic terminology. I just needed a few words and the invitation to speak them,'" Holthouse says.
He says if Erin's Law had been in effect before he was raped, he might have never been assaulted.
"Perpetrators of these crimes, they rely on shame and silence. They rely on our collective conspiracy of denial and silence about this. And if that silence had already been shattered, which educating every kid in a public school statewide will do, he might have thought that he couldn't get away with it," Holthouse says.
But he says he can't know that for sure. What he does know is that Erin's Law will prevent kids from being sexually assaulted. He says schools need to have curriculum and talk openly about it.
"I'm not just speaking on my own behalf. I'm speaking for tens of thousands of Alaska children and the adults they'll grow up to be. And what I'm saying is, 'Help us,'" Holthouse says.
Democratic Rep. Geran Tarr introduced the bill last year and it appeared poised to become law. Then-Gov. Sean Parnell supported Erin's Law, the Senate passed it and the House version had 21 co-sponsors. But the bill got stuck in committee.
This year, there are four identical Erin's Law bills – two from Republicans and two from Democrats. And Gov. Bill Walker wants it on his desk. Democratic Sen. Berta Gardner's versionwas the first to get a hearing in Senate Education.
Tarr hopes the bill will pass this session. She understands some lawmakers are uncomfortable with Erin's Law being a requirement, but she says there are likely community resources and private dollars available.
"We approached the Rasmuson Foundation, Alaska Children's Trust, Mat-Su Health Foundation and just put the idea out there of would they be a resource for helping implement a curriculum and they all responded in a positive way," Tarr says.
Erin's Law has passed in 20 states and is pending in 21 others, including Alaska.
Alaska Delegation Seeks New Limits On National Monuments
For over a hundred years, presidents have used the Antiquities Act to order permanent protections for federal land and resources at sea. Now, Alaska's congressional delegation is looking to curb that authority.
Senators Lisa Murkowski and Dan Sullivan are co-sponsoring a bill that would require lawmakers to sign off before a president can set up a national monument.
Murkowski introduced similar legislation last year, and the issue has also come up in the U.S. House. But it's closer to home now that there's a campaign to get federal protection around the Aleutian Islands.
Rick Steiner, an Anchorage-based shipping advocate, has been leading that effort.
"Overfishing, shipping, fishing, habitat degradation, debris, climate change, what have you," Steiner says. "They all need to be managed in an integrated way. So, I'm sorry the delegation is having a knee-jerk reaction to this potential."
They had a similar reaction in December, when Steiner helped nominate more than 550,000 square miles of the Bering Sea and North Pacific Ocean to become a marine sanctuary.
Unlike monuments, sanctuaries are managed by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. Damaging protected resources inside a sanctuary can lead to civil fines, which the Antiquities Act doesn't address.
But NOAA ruled there wasn't enough backing from affected communities in the Aleutians — let alone elected officials — to move forward.
Matt Brookhart is a policy chief in NOAA's Office of National Marine Sanctuaries.
"We understand what we don't want to see with a nomination, and that is the nomination comes from a community that is very focused on one or two interest groups," Brookhart said in an interview this winter.
While conservationists and research groups are still interested in a sanctuary, Steiner is pushing for executive action.
The White House has not responded to his proposal to create marine monuments in the Aleutians, along with the Bering Strait and the Arctic Coastal Plain. But as long as the president has veto power, Steiner says he's not concerned about any legislation to limit new monuments.
As The Iditarod Start Shifts North, So Does The Economic Boon
This year's Iditarod restart will be in Fairbanks for only the second time in the race's 43-year history. Poor trail conditions prompted the move, and many some mushers are happy with the change. For businesses in the Susitna Valley, however, there will be a significant economic impact.
The changing of the Iditarod restart location to Fairbanks has some mushers excited. Four-time race winner Jeff King told KUAC's Emily Schwing that he's looking forward to the new route.
"I'm personally thrilled. Not because of any other reason than I love a new trail, and I love going to new places, so I'm looking forward to some variation," he said.
The decision to move the start of the race came after Iditarod Trail Committee board members observed very poor conditions on parts of the traditional trail. Talkeetna musher Jerry Sousa says that some sections, like the Dalzell Gorge, are rough even under favorable conditions.
"In a good year, the trail is bad," Sousa said. "So, if they say it's bad and snowmobiles can't get through there, I certainly don't want to risk my team mushing through a bad section of trail like that."
While mushers have expressed approval of the change, it comes with an economic impact to many businesses. Paul Roderick is the owner of Talketna Air Taxi. He says he had more than 30 passengers booked for a flight to the Rainy Pass checkpoint, which are listed on the company's website at $650 each. Normally, the Iditarod provides a monetary shot in the arm for businesses like his.
"It's a pretty big hit, especially when you've got 30 or 40 people going somewhere," Roderick said. "So, we've got to call them and re-work all the logistics–see what everybody wants to do."
Paul Roderick says Talkeetna Air Taxi will likely still end up with business as a result of the 2015 Iditarod, and that businesses and villages are working quickly to reorganize logistics.
"They were getting phone calls at midnight last night looking for rooms and figuring out how they were going to switch everything, basically, from the Interior, like McGrath, to basing it solely out of the Yukon River," he said.
Villages along the traditional Iditarod Trail will also miss out on the boost in visitors and money. Instead, that business will go to another set of villages further to the north. Iditarod CEO Stan Hooley says this year's race will include checkpoints in Koyukuk and Huslia for the first time.
"Those are two communities with strong ties to the very start of mushing, so it will be exciting from that standpoint and meaningful in a lot of different ways," Hooley said.
This winter is the second in a row with warmer temperatures and less snow than usual along the Iditarod Trail. Stan Hooley says this is not likely the end of the traditional trail, however.
"What it means for the future, we don't know," he said. "We certainly would prefer to travel the traditional Iditarod Trail, and we'll do everything we can to do that in the future, but this year it's just not in the cards."
After the ceremonial start on March 7 in Anchorage, the 2015 Iditarod will begin in earnest in Fairbanks on Monday, March 9.
Learning to Sew With Seal Guts
Recently, about a dozen students gathered at the Cultural Center in Bethel to learn the traditional art of 'gut sewing'. Seal intestines were prized throughout Yup'ik history for their waterproof performance before modern materials took hold. And now culture bearers are trying to bring back the skill.
For most students, today is the first time they have ever worked with guts.
Their 71-year-old instructor however, Mary Tunuchuk, has a lifetime of experience with the traditional material. She says imarnitet or "gut parkas" were critical for survival in her youth.
"The waterproof gut parkas were very important for men while hunting in the ocean. The way it reacts to moisture makes it a more effective insulated raincoat than most modern raincoats. In my first memories, women would learn to make raincoats, and other waterproof items before they get married, to ensure a better chance at survival. These days I never see anyone practice the art anymore," said Tunuchuk.
Revitalizing the practice is part of the goal of the workshop, hosted by Bethel's Yupiit Piciryarait Cultural Center and sponsored by the Smithsonian Arctic Studies Center and the Anchorage Museum. Besides parkas, seal intestines were used to make all kinds of waterproof items like bags, mittens, boot-linings and even windows. Curator Sarah Owens explains students will be using two kinds of material.
"There's going to be a mixture of Native students who will be using seal intestine that Mary's providing, but there's also going to be non-Native students like myself and we will be using a substitute. We'll be using hog intestine to sew with because it's actually illegal for us to be sewing the seal intestine," said Owens.
Tunuchak explains the process starts with the raw seal intestines, which are washed. She uses a dull scraper to remove the soft fleshy material from a membrane, which later is painstakingly cleaned of any flesh or blood. It's washed in brine or freshwater before being inflated like a long balloon and hung to dry.
Tunuchuk taught the class the basics of sewing and the use of taperrnaq or grass as spacers between seams.
"It's not just any grass, it's beach grass, they are flexible and we use them around the seams so we could tighten the thread without breaking the membrane. You have a tighter more reinforced waterproof seam, without tearing the intestine," said Tunuchuk.
The students bent the edges of the material with their mouths, using their saliva to make the material more flexible and hold its shape while sewing.
Students end up having made an amber colored translucent window. In ancient times, the window would have served as more of a skylight, called tanqin, Yup'ik for 'something that brightens'.
Bethel resident, Annie Roach says she's at the class because she wanted to connect with her culture.
"I've heard about some of the traditional skills and practices. I've always wanted to learn and now I understand a small part of it," said Roach.
Yupiit Piciryarait Cultural Center staff say there are plans for more workshops exploring traditional skills, like a doll making class in the last week of March, and a fish skin crafting class later in April. The seal intestines for the class were provided by Mary Tunuchuk, who processed the intestine from seals caught by her children ad grandchildren.
Story49: Love Series – Coffee and Rolls
This is the tale of two people who had given up on the idea of soul mates until they met each other on an island in the middle of the Bering Sea.
This story starts with Shana. Shana's a doctor in Nome and she agreed to sit down with me to talk about one of my favorite things, love.
"I definitely believed in soul mates when I was younger and that was something that started to fade. I started to give up on the idea of soul mates," she said. "There's a lot of reasons I came to Alaska. I wanted to go to a place where I could do a lot of medicine, and out here we do pretty much everything. But also thinking, that potentially the same kind of person who like adventure and wants to serve in a community that's under-served…who knows what they would be doing, but potentially I could meet that type of person in Alaska."
Now meet Dave. Dave currently lives in Nondalton, but he originally came to Alaska several years ago, drawn by the flying and teaching possibilities. Last year, he was a teacher out on the island of Little Diomede.
Dave: "I wanted to go somewhere where there was a high teacher turnover rate and stick around, you know, actually invest in the community and the kids."
Kristin: "Alright, so what were some of your general beliefs about love?"
Dave: "Let's see, love at first sight, no. Nah, I'm a science teacher I know how science works. I don't buy that."
Kristin: So when would you say your love story begins?"
Dave: [laughs] "As soon as I walked into the room and saw her."
Their paths crossed last May when Shana traveled to Little Diomede for a medical trip and stayed in the school.
"We were getting settled in and this guy came by and he was wearing this Hawaiian shirt that he calls his island shirt because he lives out on the island of Diomede," Shana said. "Had a mustache, longish hair and the brightest eyes and a big smile."
"She smiled and had this amazing smile that just about knocked me out, so I turned around and walked out of the room," Dave said.
"My impression was, 'oh he's really busy.' He was like, 'hey you guys okay? Great I'll see you later.' And I was like, wow that's really nice to check on us, but he must be also really busy," Shana said.
They didn't really think they'd see each other again, but Before Shana left they traded blog sites.
"His blog is like the soul mate of my blog," she said.
Blog comments turned into short emails, which turned into longer and longer emails.
Shana: We shared our lives with each other and they were similar in a lot of ways. But then I sent him a poem…"
Dave: "This poem, one of the lines in this poem, was..uh,oh something, what did it say?"
Shana: It's a poem by Hafiz who's a Sufi poet, mystic from Persia and it says plant so that your own heart will grow, love so God will think…
Dave: "Ah, I got kin in that body"
Shana: "Ah, I got kin in that body" I should start inviting that soul over for coffee and rolls. Sing because this is a food our starving world needs, laugh because that is the purest sound. And I said, it reminds me of you, especially that part that says, "I should start inviting that soul over for coffee and rolls."
Dave: "What got me was she said this poem reminded her of me and I was like…wait…could that mean that maybe she's interested in me, maybe she kind of likes me."
Yes, it turned out Shana did like Dave. They had their first date in Anchorage where they went flying. They had their second date in Nome where Dave secretly got her ring size…and for their third date, Dave flew up to Nome again.
Dave: "I'm sitting there in that 737 coming into Nome, I looked out the window and I saw the most stunning, amazing, beautiful, low sunlight coming in over the Bering Sea."
Shana: "It was a gorgeous day, it was right before the solstice, Dec 20th, the sun was shining it was one of the brightest days we had had."
Dave: "And I saw that and said, well this is it. We gotta go for a walk. So I kept it simple, asked her "Will you marry me?" And she kind of gasped and said…"
Shana: "Honestly, my first thought was "Are you serious?" But I knew that couldn't' be the first thing I say."
Dave: "She knelt down beside me and said, yes. A million times yes."
Shana: "Yes, a million times yes."
This segment is part of KNOM's Story49 love series. If you want to hear the full version and other stories of Western Alaskan couples, you can visit knom dot org.
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Facing First Cuts In Years, Alaska Lawmakers Tackle The Budget
Alexandra Gutierrez, APRN – Juneau
Right now, the Legislature is facing a deficit that some leaders are describing as a "$4 billion problem." With oil prices half what they were a year ago, lawmakers are having to cut agency budgets for the first time in years.
Today, the finance committees in the House and the Senate held their first hearings on the operating budget.
Alaska Writer David Holthouse Shows Support For Erin's Law
Lisa Phu, KTOO
Alaska raised writer David Holthouse has told his story of being sexually abused as a child before. It's appeared in newspapers, on the radio and on stage in New York City.
But when he spoke in the Alaska Capitol building today, it was to support Erin's Law, a bill that would require public schools statewide to provide age-appropriate K-12 sexual abuse education.
Sullivan Stands With House on DHS Funding
Liz Ruskin, APRN – Washington DC
Funding for the Department of Homeland Security will run out February 27, unless Congress can resolve an impasse over immigration policy riders the House added to a funding bill.
BOEM Assessment Suggests Shell's Chukchi Leases Remain Intact
Lauren Rosenthal, KUCB – Unalaska
Federal regulators are recommending that Shell's disputed oil leases in the Chukchi Sea be left intact. That's the conclusion of a new assessment of Lease Sale 193 – the 2008 auction where Shell picked more than $2 billion worth of Arctic drilling prospects.
Alaska Delegation Seeks New Limits On National Monuments
Lauren Rosenthal, KUCB – Unalaska
For over a hundred years, presidents have used the Antiquities Act to order permanent protections for federal land and resources at sea. Now, Alaska's senators are looking to curb that authority before the Obama administration tries to apply it in the 49th State.
As The Iditarod Start Shifts North, So Does The Economic Boon
Phillip Manning, KTNA – Talkeetna
Moving the Iditarod start from Anchorage to Fairbanks will impact businesses across the state.
Learning to Sew With Seal Guts
Charles Enoch, KYUK – Bethel
Students at the Cultural Center in Bethel recently learned the traditional art of 'gut sewing'. Seal intestines were prized throughout Yup'ik history for their waterproof performance. And a culture bearer from Chefornak is teaching the skill.
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AVTEC Nursing Programs Cut
AVTEC, the state's vocational and technical school with campuses in Seward and Anchorage, will be losing programs due to the budget ax. AVTEC's three allied health programs will be eliminated by the end of this year, according to Paloma Harbour, administrative services division director with the state Department of Labor and Workforce development.
"As a part of the governor's endorsed budget, all agencies were asked to contribute to the reduction because of the revenue shortfall for the state. Our departments contribution was overall an eight percent reduction to the department, so it wasn't just AVTEC. AVTEC's share of the reduction was just over $450,000 in state funds alone."
Harbour says allied health program cuts will save the other AVTEC programs.
"The choice wasn't made lightly, but because it was one of the most expensive programs, based on statutory requirements on instructors to students and other expenses related to the program, it was the one they could cut to meet their target reductions. If they were to cut other programs, they would have had to cut multiple other programs. "
Harbour says board of nursing requirements make hiring multiple instructors a necessity for the health programs.
AVTEC has three nursing programs. The registered nursing program is coming to an end in July, anyway, because it has lost federal funding. Two other programs, licensed practical nurse and nursing assistant, will end in November because of the state cuts.
AVTEC's three allied health programs combined serve about 140 students a year. Harbour says the school partners with Cook Inlet Tribal Council on funding for the registered nurse program, and it is possible that that could continue if AVTEC can find alternate funding sources for its share of the costs.
"One of the things that AVTEC's looking into right now, is the Cook Inlet Tribal Council, who is the partner that was helping to supply federal funds to support the registered nurse program, they are looking to again apply for federal funds, and if they are successful, they want to continue some partnership."
Currently enrolled students in the nursing assistant and licensed practical nurse classes will be able to finish classes before the closures go into effect.
Sullivan Stands With House on DHS Funding
Funding for the Department of Homeland Security will run out February 27, unless Congress can resolve an impasse over immigration policy riders the House included in its funding bill. Alaska Sen. Dan Sullivan today stood with conservative lawmakers, including Texas Sen. Ted Cruz, calling on the Senate to pass the House bill.
Sullivan told reporters at the Capitol he wants to work with President Obama. In fact, he said, he was heading to the White House that afternoon to watch him sign a veterans mental health bill. But when it comes to Homeland Security funding, Sullivan says Democrats shouldn't support Obama's immigration policies.
"And I think it's very important that we make the case that this is something the American people don't support and it's something the Constitution of the United States does not authorize," he said at a press conference that included Republican Sens. Cruz, Mike Lee of Utah and Jeff Sessions of Alabama, along with a host of House conservatives.
The House bill blocks funding for executive orders that would temporarily shield millions of illegal immigrants from deportation. The Supreme Court hasn't ruled whether President Obama has the authority under the Constitution to issue the orders, which opponents call "executive amnesty."
Senate Democrats are demanding a bill free of the funding blocks, and time is running out. Earlier this week, Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, among other Republicans on the Senate leadership team, said the House needs to come up with another solution because the House-passed bill doesn't have the 60 votes needed to clear the Senate. But Cruz and the other lawmakers at the press conference want to hold firm.
"The House of Representatives has done its job," Cruz said. A flurry of camera shutters followed each of his hand gestures. "It has voted on funding for DHS. And Senate Democrats are playing partisan politics with our national security by preventing the Senate from even taking up that funding bill."
Senate Democrats say it's the Republicans risking furloughs at DHS. The Department includes the Coast Guard, the immigration service, border protection and FEMA.
Jeff King Takes Cautious Approach To Frigid Yukon Quest
Jeff King won the Yukon Quest International Sled Dog Race back in 1989. He is also well-known on the Iditarod trail, having won Alaska's other 1,000 mile sled dog race four times.
This year, he returned to the Quest, but decided to scratch from the race after only 300 miles.
This year, Jeff King signed up for both of Alaska's 1000-mile sled dog races. Over the year's he says he's seen other dog teams improve after their first 1000-miler.
"This one wasn't going to make them stronger, this one was going to need recovery," King said.
When King left the Pelly Crossing checkpoint, temperatures were frigid – between minus 30 and minus 40 degrees. That was still the case when he reached the Stepping Stone hospitality stop.
"After 16 hours, I fully expected to leave," King said. "I also expected the temperature not to go down to the lowest I had seen since I had arrived and when I stepped out on the porch at 6 a.m., after having fed the dogs three times, food that was really intended for Scroggie creek and Eureka, it was 47 below zero."
When King first started running the Yukon Quest in the mid-1980's, those temperatures were the norm, but King says that's was never fun for him.
"I don't think fun is the word," he said. "I think I shared the mentality of wanting to be the toughest and I wanted to know that I could endure and overcome these challenges."
But King says he's changed after 40 years of working with sled dogs.
"I love having a fast dog team that loves me and nothing anymore will tempt me into jeopardizing that," he said.
King is used to running teams that move down the trail between 8-10 miles per hour, but subzero temperatures slowed dogs teams to nearly half that as they approached Dawson City.
"I don't need another trophy; I don't need another pay check," he said. "I want to have fun and that was not fun."
King says his dogs are recovering well. He also says had the weather been warmer, the race's outcome could be different.
"I don't expect any of the teams that make it the whole way to be very competitive again this year, would be my guess," he said.
King admitted that prior to the race, he confided in close friends that he planned to scratch if conditions hard on his dog team. He wouldn't say for sure whether he would return for the Quest again in the future.
BOEM Assessment Suggests Shell's Chukchi Leases Remain Intact
Federal regulators are recommending that Shell's disputed oil leases in the Chukchi Sea be left intact.
That's the conclusion of a new assessment of Lease Sale 193 – the 2008 auction where Shell picked more than $2 billion worth of Arctic drilling prospects.
The Bureau of Ocean Energy Management released its latest analysis Thursday, after a federal appeals court ordered them to take another look at how much development the sale would trigger in the Chukchi Sea.
Regulators had previously guessed that leases in the region could yield up to 1 billion barrels of oil. But Judge Ralph Beistline ruled that was an arbitrary figure – and it cast doubt on the government's justification for the sale.
BOEM has revised its estimate, saying that companies could get up to 4 billion barrels of oil from the Chukchi. That's worried environmentalists, who are concerned about the risk of a spill.
But BOEM isn't suggesting any changes to the lease sale. According to the study released Thursday, "It continues to represent a reasonable balance between environmental, economic, and technical considerations."
This isn't the first time that BOEM has had to go back and recheck this sale. Judge Beistline made a similar order five years ago. But once the agency put together extra environmental studies, Beistline allowed Shell to explore its leases in the Chukchi.
For now, that activity is still off-limits. Interior Secretary Sally Jewell has to wait 30 days before she can weigh in and issue a final record of decision – on whether to uphold the sale, adjust its parameters, or strike it down altogether.
The waiting period will end on March 25.
Layovers Vital To Yukon Quest Mushers, Dogs
After Yukon Quest mushers arrive in Dawson City, they drive their teams head across the Yukon River to a public campground, where handlers build elaborate camps for the dogs. They'll get massaged, fed and sleep for during the 24 hour layover.
Brent Sass had his dog team lined out and waiting to leave the dog camp more than a half hour early.
"I'm a little anxious, because it's a lot easier once you get out on the trail," he said. "This is like before that big game."
He says he and his team were well rested.
"I feel great. I slept down here with the dogs in the wall tent and I got a good seven hour rest and then a couple naps in between feedings and the dogs did the exact same thing, we're kind of all on the same schedule," Sass said. "They ate really well at this stop, which is awesome. They drank really well before we left so they're all super hydrated."
A few minutes later, Sass was checking his mandatory gear, just to make sure, and then he took off.
As Sass left camp, handlers for most of the other teams were still setting up.
Beth Shepard and Jake Berkowitz pull at the legs of a collapsible cot. They were also organizing gear and food for rookie musher Jason Campeau.
"…A good wide open place for the dogs to sleep, ample room for the dogs and you… time and energy that you should, a nice Arctic oven to keep everyone warm and yeah that's pretty much it."
Berkowitz drove dog teams in the Yukon Quest in 2012 and 2013 before he retired. Behind him, a giant blue tarp hangs between the trees from three ropes. It's a makeshift tent, tall enough to stand in. Piles of snow topped with straw line the sides. They look like little nests.
"Every dog has their own little spot. We'll get the dogs up about every six to eight hours," Berkowitz said. "We'll get them out of the tent I've always found when the dogs go in here they kind of into hibernation mode where you're not going to see them devour food, so getting them out of here and then they'll come back, snuggle back up."
Joel Switzer has been a handler on the Yukon Quest trail many times. He says he's learned plenty about dog care during the layover.
"You learn things from other teams and other tricks and how other people recover their dogs," Switzer said. "Well, how to stretch them out and rub the muscles and shoulders and what to look for in the feet."
After they're massaged, Switzer will feed dogs a mixture of hot water, kibble and meat.
"There's something called BLT that people talk about – beef, liver and tripe – what we have isn't exactly that, but the BLT has a whole new meaning in the dog mushing world," he said.
It's the kind of food that's among a variety Cody Strathe's dogs will devour. The Fairbanks musher checked in at Dawson exhausted from a run over King Solomon's dome.
"We had to break trail all the way up and over and around and down, yeah there's about a foot of snow up there and it's drifting," he said.
He was ready to bed down his team, but he had hoped for more rest.
"It's short, really short, I miss 36," he said.
Strathe is among a majority of mushers who would have preferred to layover for 36 hours halfway through the race. But this year, the rules committee decreased that time by 12 hours and added two six hour stops elsewhere.
Overall, total mandatory rest time will drop from 52 to 50 hours this year.


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Status: RealI came across this cool picture of a tiger diving into water. My first thought was that it had to be fake, but from what I can gather (via machine translation) from the comments below the image, the photographer, Sergey Bidun, says that it's real. And he links to other, less spectacular, pictures from the same series. One question that people seem to be asking is why the tiger's claws aren't out. My guess is that it's been declawed.
There's an exhibit like this in Las Vegas where you can see the tigers used in the Siegfried and Roy show. At least, there was the last time I was in Vegas. (I don't know if Siegfried is still doing that show alone, or was it cancelled after Roy's accident?) But I don't think this picture was taken at that exhibit.
Update: Sergey Bidun posts that he took this picture at Six Flags Marine World in Vallejo.
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well in research ive learned tigers do enjoy water! but the figures and looks on this tiger makes it hard to critisize if its real or fake. the chances in my book are 50/50Posted by jordann in texas on Mon Sep 10, 2007 at 08:49 PM
Cats (tigers) are good swimmers that like the water. The retract their claws while swimming. The paws make better paddles when retracted.Posted by Jim Orlando in Romeo, MI on Mon Aug 26, 2013 at 01:40 PM
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International breaks often leave managers sweating, but Mark Waburton is only too pleased to put his feet up and watch his star men in action.
Brentford may not have lived up to the standards they have set themselves at home this term, but Saturday's 2-2 draw with Millwall may yet prove to be a crucial point in the Championship shake-up.
Boss Mark Warburton expects Lewis Macleod to make a significant impact on his side's Championship promotion charge this season.
Brentford keeper Mark Smith could be set for a return to Hampton & Richmond Borough, but boss Alan Dowson may have to fight off other interest to land his signature.
Brentford midfielder Stuart Dallas admitted it was as important to not lose as it was to win at Ipswich Town on Saturday.
Everton loanee Chris Long marked his first Championship start for Brentford with a brace in his side's 4-1 win over Huddersfield Town at Griffin Park.
Arsenal youngster Jon Toral has thanked Brentford boss Mark Warburton for giving him the chances in the Championship that could set him on his way to a starring role in the Premier League one day.
Mark Warburton believes his loanees have unlimited potential as they all shined in an emphatic 4-0 win against struggling Blackpool, writes Daniel Ross,
Boss Mark Warburton hailed his players as Brentford bounced back from news of the manager's summer exit and back-to-back defeats with three points on Saturday.
Brentford boss Mark Warburton, sporting director Frank McParland and assistant manager David Weir agree to exit Griffin Park at the end of the current season.
Brenford boss Mark Warburton has insisted off the field issues were not to blame for his side's insipid derby defeat at Charlton Athletic.
Brentford midielder Stuart Dallas did his growing reputation no harm in Tuesday's 2-1 defeat to Watford and his performance was not lost on manager Mark Warburton.
Bees boss Mark Warburton is not going to let speculation over his future affect his side's push for the Championship play-offs.
Brentford have refused to confirm whether boss Mark Warburton will be in the hot seat beyond the end of this season.
Brentford midfielder Alex Pritchard starred as his goal proved enough to give Brentford a 1-0 victory over Leeds United at Elland Road on Saturday.
Brentford boss Mark Warburton is getting tired of rival managers saying their team have had an off day after losing to his side.
Fit again Alan McCormack is long enough in the tooth to know he faces a struggle to get back in the Brentford starting line up – not least because of Moses Odubajo's fine form.
A well drilled Middlesbrough side grabbed a narrow 1-0 win over Brentford at Griffin Park on Saturday.
Brentford can achieve anything provided they keep believing in themselves, says boss Mark Warburton, and that could mean promotion in May.
Seven men have been charged with affray following an alleged fight after a Brentford FC match.
Brentford boss Mark Warburton says the capture of Everton striker Chris Long on an initial month-long loan has been a labour of love.
Hampton & Richmond Borough boss Alan Dowson has backed on-loan keeper Mark Smith to break in to the Brentford first team within the next two years.
For the second consecutive week Brentford secured victory by the narrowest of margins, as an Andre Gray goal gave them a 1-0 win over Brighton & Hove Albion at the Amex Community Stadium on Saturday.
Stuart Dallas might have got injured the last time he was called up for international duty, but it will not stop the Brentford midfielder answering the call again.
Southend United manager Phil Brown has dismissed speculation linking goalkeeper Daniel Bentley with a switch to Championship club Brentford, writes Chris Phillps.
Brentford boss Mark Warburton has hit back at critics questioning his decision not to recruit heavily during the January transfer window.
Boss Mark Warburton reckons Brentford are reaping the benefits of the careful handling of midfielder Jota.
Brentford boss Mark Warburton revealed a half-time 'heart-to-heart' with his men got them back to winning ways at Blackburn Rovers on Tuesday to keep them dreaming of Premier League football next term.
Brentford missed the opportunity to cement their place in the Championship play-offs on Saturday, but boss Mark Warburton is remaining positive.
Everton loanee Chris Long revealed marking his first Championship start for Brentford with a brace was literally the stuff of dreams.
Brentford boss Mark Warburton insisted his men are not out of the Championship promotion race, despite watching a performance at Birmingham City that lacked quality.
Brentford boss Mark Warburton says the signature of Leicester City defender Liam Moore is a boost to his side's promotion hopes at the expense of his side's rivals.
Brentford are out to secure Championship promotion as much for departing boss Mark Warburton as for themselves, says midfielder Jonathan Douglas.
Brentford boss Mark Warburton says his players hungry to prove news of his impending exit from Griffin Park will not derail their push for the play-offs.
Brentford boss Mark Warburton expects owner Matthew Benham to clear up any uncertainty over his future this week.
A lifeless Brentford crashed to a 2-0 defeat to Charlton Athletic at The Valley on Saturday.
Brentford boss Mark Warburton has emerged as a front runner for the vacant Aston Villa manager's position following Paul Lambert's sacking.
Brentford boss Mark Warburton reckons midfielder Jon Toral's cameo on Saturday might have been born out of frustration at not getting a start in recent weeks.
Brentford boss Mark Warburton has demanded more respect for his players after a hard-fought 1-0 win at Leeds United – or maybe not.
Brentford midfielder Jonathan Douglas is close to putting pen to paper on a new deal with the Championship high flyers.
Brentford boss Mark Warburton has backed midfielder Alex Pritchard to make an impact in the Premier League next season – with Tottenham Hotspur.
Bees new boy Jack O'Connell is unlikely to make his Brentford debut this season after revealing he is set to head out on loan for the rest of the season.
Brentfordboss Mark Warburton labelled keeper David Button the best keeper in the Championship after preserving three points for his side at Norwich City.
Brentford displayed their promotion credentials with a fine 2-1 win over Norwich City at Carrow Road on Saturday.
Brentford new boy Chris Long wants to repeat the success of fellow former loan stars Jake Bidwell and Adam Forshaw.
Boss Mark Warburton has revealed he is using Burnley boss Sean Dyche's method for landing promotion from the Championship - if it ain't broke don't fix it.
Boss Mark Warburton has not been surprised by Brentford's surge in to the Championship's top five this term, but he does wish his side were more clinical.
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Brentford academy director Osa Aibangee has tipped new signing Josh Laurent to be a first team star of the future.
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Toad's Place and Manic Productions Present
The Joy Formidable
You Won't, Vinyl Thief
Toad's Place
300 York St.
New Haven, CT, 06511
This event is all ages
Not a lot goes down in Casco, Maine. In the winter months, this sequestered hamlet around 30 miles from Portland in the North Easternmost tip of the United States acquires a Siberian stillness as suffocating snow descends and carpets this eerily remote and reclusive region.
Yet it was to a forest just outside Casco that The Joy Formidable singer/guitarist Ritzy Bryan and bassist Rhydian Dafydd retired at the start of 2012 to dream up their magnificent second album, Wolf's Law, a record that teems with imagination, yearning and a Carpe Diem restlessness.
"It was just the two of us in this isolated spot where we hardly saw anybody else all the time we were there," says Ritzy. "It snowed every day and the surroundings and the solitude gave us a different level of intensity.
"We had no phone signal, no wi-fi – it was fucking bliss! It is Stephen King country up there and we worried that we'd turn into The Shining and cave each other's heads in. But it was very still, very beautiful – and in a strange way it reminded us of our home area of North Wales."
Wolf's Law is a driven, hugely emotive record, an alluring and attitudinal follow-up to The Joy Formidable's keenly received 2011 debut, The Big Roar. It's an album that was recorded in very different circumstances to its predecessor, both geographically and emotionally.
"We had a very difficult period in our personal lives making The Big Roar," says Rhydian. "Ritzy's parents were going through a very painful, long-drawn-out divorce and also we lost both close friends and family. We made it in very tight, enclosed studio spaces and it made it a very frustrated and aggressive record.
"With Wolf's Law, some of the difficult personal circumstances have been resolved, so while there is still aggression there, the record is a lot more harmonious and focussed. It helped that we were completely lost in nature in Maine because it is really an album about reconnecting – with yourself, with nature and with spirituality."
Such heavyweight and profound themes run through Wolf's Law like a pulse. The album's audacious reach and ambition is clear in the extraordinary film that The Joy Formidable commissioned for its title track: a breathtaking sequence of monochrome images of birth, death and the natural world.
"That track (Wolf's Law) was always meant as an art piece, we wanted to make a visual that introduced the mood of the record. It's a song about encouragement, reawakening hope and knowing that time is precious," says Ritzy. "It's very aware of its own mortality and how fleeting a moment can be."
"It encapsulates the themes of the album," agrees Rhydian. "It's about how beautiful and cruel life can be and how it's always moving, and also about seizing the moment, because life is short."
It's evident that the stark serenity of snowbound Casco impacted on the marrow of Wolf's Law. Themes of the raw beauty and majesty of nature are laced throughout the album. The buzzsaw, ragged yet beautifully melodic Cholla was inspired by the giant cacti of the Joshua Tree National Park, yet also details familial breakdowns; The Leopard and the Lung was written in honour of a doughty environmentalist campaigner.
"It's about a true hero – a Kenyan female activist, Wangari Maathai who fought against an entire corrupt establishment for nature and for women's rights," says Ritzy. "She was so fucking brave! Her name,Wangari, means leopard in Kukuru. She told Kenyan women to plant trees because she said that trees are the lungs of the earth."
Yet not all of the audacious, propulsive Wolf's Law is about such extraneous matters. Although Ritzy and Rhydian have been a couple since before the making of The Big Roar, they have never previously referenced their relationship in song. On the taut Tendons, a shimmering rock reverie powered by the martial beat of Joy Formidable drummer Matt Thomas, they courageously affix their hearts firmly to their sleeves.
"Rhydian and I were making music together before we became a couple, so we have never experienced our relationship outside of the bubble of this band," muses Ritzy. "It can be a difficult dynamic to maintain and it sometimes makes me wonder – is our relationship based on the chaos of this band and our music, and if that were to change, where would it leave us?"
"The tendons reference is because we're so inextricably linked," adds Rhydian. "This band and music join us so closely together; we're soul mates, but could it destroy us as well?"
Precarious relationships. Confessionals. Catharsis. The call of the wild. Life, birth, death and all points in-between. With such vast, profound and heartfelt themes, wrapped up in some of the most visceral and voluptuous art-rock-and-roll that has exploded since the halcyon days of the Pixies, it's no surprise that a lot of people expect Wolf's Law to be The Joy Formidable's quantum-leap breakthrough album, a springboard to arena-filling status, this fiercely driven band's tipping point into rock's A-League.
Are they ready for this? Is it even what they want?
"If we can keep our artistic integrity," says Ritzy, "and carry on writing songs that are important to us, and keep the thrill and the excitement of doing what we do, and carry on moving forward and evolving, and still manage to connect with an arena full of people – fuck it, that would be fantastic! But it's not the reason why we do what we do. We won't change to get there."
"That's true," agrees Rhydian. "The point is to reach as many people as possible – but for all the right reasons."
Their charming reticence may soon become immaterial. The Joy Formidable have made an album so colossal, so compelling that it may even put Casco, Maine on the map. If there is any justice in the world, 2013 will be the Year of the Wolf.
Massachusetts natives Josh Arnoudse and Raky Sastri have been making things together since 1999, when they engaged in horrendously reckless swordplay during a high school production of "My Favorite Year." From 2003 to 2008 they conspired to produce a series of strange and little-seen movies while Josh attended college in Western Massachusetts and Raky gigged around NYC with a number of different bands. During this period of geographical separation they began trading home recordings of their original songs via email and formulating vague and grandiose plans to start a band together some day.
You Won't was born in late 2010, when the two friends willfully marooned themselves in the woods of Eastern Massachusetts (for the second and third time, respectively) to record a number of Josh's songs. They emerged like baby bears in the spring of 2011 and spent the next several months touring the east coast and playing regularly in Boston and NYC as music blogs including Spinner, I Guess I'm Floating, and Pretty Much Amazing began to take note of their distinctively melodic musical stylings. Their full-length debut, Skeptic Goodbye, was released on Old Flame Records on February 14, 2012.
Vinyl Thief is an electro-rock band from Nashville, TN. Easy on the electro, with a generous serving of rock. No twang, though, proving that Nashville music doesn't have to come from the back of a cowboy's pickup truck or from somewhere inside Jack White's garage.
It can come from dance parties in your neighbor's basement. Or around your kitchen table, where your friends argue, "Who's better: TV on the Radio or Arcade Fire?"
Lead vocalist Grayson Proctor says, "In the past, people always equated Nashville with cowboy hats and rodeos. That's all starting to change with new bands that aren't afraid to take risks."
Releasing their debut EP, Control, in 2010, the band built a loyal following in Nashville and the Southeast.
This group of five distinct personalities is for those of us who like a little juxtaposition. The band pairs energetic showmanship and shout-along choruses with intricate textures and rhythms. Vinyl Thief takes the raucous rock of Cold War Kids and combines it with the electronic flourishes of Phoenix.
Music magazine The Deli says, "It's rare to see a small band make such use of the stage with confidence, but Vinyl Thief held little back, working their way around a clutter of keys and drums as they textured rock, pop, dance, and just plain noise."
$13.00 - $15.00
Tickets Available at the Door
NOTE: Tickets will NOT be available for purchase at the Redscroll Records box office at any time.
Who's Going
Upcoming Events
Toad's Place
Sun, April 26
Richard Thompson
The Joy Formidable with You Won't, Vinyl Thief
Monday, June 17 · 7:00 PM at Toad's Place


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